India's Arjun Kadhe ended a runner-up at the ITF Futures event at Abuja, Nigeria after losing the final in straight sets to Brazil's...

 India's Arjun Kadhe ended a runner-up at the ITF Futures event at Abuja, Nigeria after losing the final in straight sets to Brazil's Joao Menezes. Playing in his fourth final on the ITF circuit this season, the 397th-ranked Kadhe lost 3-6 1-6 to his opponent, placed three places above him in the ranking chart. "The first set was pretty close and he played really well. It was tough for me to break him. In the second set, I lost the first few games which I should have won on deuce," Kadhe told PTI from Abuja.

It was the third runner-up finish for the 24-year old from Pune after similar results in Kolkata and Trivandrum early this year. "It's a learning process and being consistent with performance is key too, especially when you are playing doubles and singles both," he said. Kadhe had won the title in Bhubaneswar in February.